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The All India Convention of Young
Doctors, AICYD 2013 held at Hotel Savera and jointly organized by the
IMA-College of General Practitioners and Indian Medical Students' Associtaion
has turned out to be a milestone event in the history of Indian medical
fraternity. This is the first event to act as a bridge between the veterans and
the young blood in the field of meedicine in India. The one-day event saw
participations from 156 medical colleges of the country with a total of 500+
students participants. The event had varied programs which included sessions on
Medical Entrepreneurship, Legal Medicine, Quiz Competition and student
presentations.

But, the highlight of the day was
the much awaited session by NBE Executive Director, Dr. Bipin Batra. He started
by appreciating the effort of uniting the medical fraternity and creating a
common platform with seniors and juniors of the profession. Dr. Batra then
informed the audience about the various issues which pertain to the future of
medical students of the country. Following his lecture Dr.Batra was bombarded
with questions by the students present there, he was also asked the questions
that were submitted by hundreds of students from around the country.

Exit Test for Medical Students: On this issue Dr.Batra informed
that in a recently concluded conclave of MCI and other stake holders, most of
the members were not in support of the idea and hence, the concept of Exit
examinations shall not move forward.

Next All India or NEET for PG Admissions in 2014: When asked about
the upcoming examinations, he said that "I'm not in a position to announce
anything, but, if the Govt. asks NBE is prepared to conduct the
examinations". He added that since, the SC ruled out NEET MoHFW has
applied to the SC to permit the conduct of AIPG-2014 and the response from SC
is expected in the last week of October after which the PG notifications shall
be announced. There was however indications that likely dates for the
examination are in the second week of December,2013.

Duration of Examination: When asked about the duration of
examinations that if this time also, the exam would stretch over a period of 10
days, Dr.Batra indicated that if NBE conducts exams then this time the testing
window shall be 5-6 days. He also added that taking the exam on a single day is
not a possibility owing to the lack of infrastructure to accommodate 90000+
candidates on a single day.

Scoring System: When asked about the scoring system, he
re-emphasized that this is the best scoring method used worldwide and it
ensures complete transparency and chance of good score by luck is impossible.
According to him to better understand the system one can read the articles
available on Wikipedia on IRT (Item Response Theory).

Repeats of slots of Questions in previous NEET: Addressing one of
the common queries posted by students, Dr. Batra ensured that this shall not be
repeated.

AIPG by AIIMS v/s NEET: The data shared by Dr.Batra showed that in
the AIPG examinations conducted by AIIMS previously only 1/3 rd of the
candidates qualified whereas in last year's NEET, nearly 70% of the candidates
qualified indicating that if NEET be adopted it would justify its role as an
eligibility test.

Increase in PG seats: Dr. Batra in his speech as well as later
announced that NBE has formulated ways to double the DNB seats in coming 3
years. And even MCI is working on the same lines.

New PG disciplines: He also announced that starting this year DNB
shall be started in 3 new disciplines which are Emergency Medicine, Medical
Genetics and Pediatric-Gastroenterology.

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